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...same time to ensure the continued economic vitality of the country.” Ah, yes: the struggling airline industry. People don’t fly on airplanes unless they feel that flying on airplanes is a safe thing to do. Thus, it is necessary to project an aura of security. As ineffectual as they are under the light of statistical scrutiny, all of the new security procedures nevertheless succeed at making travelers believe that flights are safe. I mean, what better way to make the average flyer feel like security is tight than for the TSA dude...
...Corporation needs to manufacture an aura of crisis, budget cuts and belt tightening to please the alumni,” he said, “to be able to tell them ‘we are running out of money and you, as business people, will appreciate the way we’ve been cutting the fat out of our work force...
...Kilmer), the Marine’s finest agent is assigned to the case. How do we know he’s the Secret Service’s finest agent? We know because his clenched jaw and impressive ability to appear wherever he is needed combine to give him an aura of determination and finest-agent brilliance...
...Stunning Angel The tawny hair, the toothy smile and the provocative pose that Tricia Helfer displayed in the PEOPLE item about her portraying Farrah Fawcett of Charlie's Angels fame [Feb. 2] certainly captured the aura of the '70s star. Back when 59% of all U.S. television sets were tuned to the Angels each week, TIME zeroed in on the show, which starred a trio of skimpily clad female detectives...
...jazz, country and bluegrass riffs. Jones also sounds significantly less precious. She perfected an innocent sensuality on Come Away with Me, but on songs like What Am I to You? and the terrific In the Morning, Jones proves she can do sex and jealousy without compromising her aura of propriety. There are still moments when she comes off like a young fogy--a lyric like "Who cares what the night watchmen say" seems a little moldy for a 24-year-old--but what lingers aren't the few odd phrases but the virtuosity of the instruments and, of course...